News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Continuous rainfall over the past few days has submerged thousands of hectares of ripened and semi-ripened Boro paddy across 12 upazilas in Sunamganj, while a leak in an...
Bangla Press Desk: The much-discussed Munia murder mystery has been untangled as the arrest of content creator Tawhid Afridi has brought to light various incidents of his fraud, torture and blackmail along with the real story of the college...
Bangla Press Desk: Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have placed a five-point demand in response to an attack on a fellow student, warning of tougher protests if authorities fail to act. At a pres...
Bangla Press Desk: A meeting between an 11-member delegation of protesting engineering students and two advisers of the interim government concluded on Wednesday evening without any resolution. The meeting took place around 7:00pm at Rai...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 17th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 86 at 10:00 am this morning (28 August, 2025). Today Dhaka’s air was classifi...
Bangla Press Desk: The Election Commission (EC) is set to issue the final notification on newly registered political parties on 30 September, EC sources said on Thursday. NCP and 21 other aspirant parties are expecting to get full re...
Bangla Press Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a case against Awami League General Secretary and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and three others for allegedly causing a financial loss of...
Bangla Press Desk: A group of miscreants attacked law enforcement officers and abducted a detained terrorist suspect, Md. Sumon Mia, from police custody in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur on Thursday night. The incident occurred around 8pm near the Sr...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh and India have agreed to stop killings, smugglings, illegal intrusion on borders alongside repatriate their nationals following due legal process and not to take development schemes within 150 yards of zero...
Bangla Press Desk: Some 1.5 million poultry farmers in Bangladesh purchase antibiotics every day without consulting veterinarians — representing 68 percent of total farmers — according to a new study. The research, conducted across 100 f...
Bangla Press Desk: A court in Dhaka on Friday sent 16 individuals, including former minister Abdul Latif Siddique, to jail in a case filed on charges of pushing the country towards armed struggle and plotting against the interim government...
Bangla Press Desk: Gono Odhikar Parishad would observe protest marches in all the 64 districts of the country and hold a central rally in Dhaka on Saturday, in protest against the previous day’s attack on party chief Nurul Haque Nur....
Bangla Press Desk: A mysterious disease has broken out in Pirgacha Upazila of Rangpur, leaving over 200 people infected and triggering widespread panic. Locals report that the outbreak began after livestock fell ill and subsequently...
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